Bug 237716 – >=sys-apps/busybox-1.10 fails cross-compilation to ARM

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robert Piasek (RETIRED) 2008-09-15 12:44:21 UTC]

When I crosscompile >=sys-apps/busybox-1.10 it fails with compilation errors:

  CC      miscutils/chat.o
  CC      libbb/execable.o
  CC      libbb/fclose_nonstdin.o
miscutils/chat.c: In function ‘chat_main’:
miscutils/chat.c:196: error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode
make[1]: *** [miscutils/chat.o] Error 1
make: *** [miscutils] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....


and later:

  CC      libbb/parse_config.o
  CC      libbb/parse_mode.o
libbb/parse_config.c: In function ‘parse_main’:
libbb/parse_config.c:30: error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode
make[1]: *** [libbb/parse_config.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [libbb] Error 2


I'm using:
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -Os -pipe"
gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602

on dest:
ARCH="arm"
CHOST="armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi"
CFLAGS="-march=armv4t -mtune=arm920t -Os -pipe"
armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi-4.3.1
kernel headers 2.6.24
glibc-2.7-r2
binutils-2.18

it does compile natively on x86_64 though.

If I add -std=c99 to CFLAGS it compile this file, but fails in a different place.

1.9.2 is the last version which cross compile fine for me.



Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-09-15 13:45:48 UTC]

Please post your `emerge --info' too as well as the cross compilation config and commands.